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The College Board Trends in Student Aid says that colleges awarded $ 10.2 billion in grants to grad students in 2013 - 2014 and employers added another $ 5.2 billion.

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The $ 5,000 prize money they receive for the College Entrepreneur of 2012 award will be used for retooling the Star website — crucial because its interface allows customers who see a coupon they like to enter information and download a PDF, so that they don't have to carry a square of toilet tissue into a store to redeem the offer.

The state expects to spend $ 10 million a year in scholarships, which will be awarded to anyone who doesn't hold a college degree or certificate.

The program will award $ 5,000 each year and will be renewable for up to four years of the selected student's college education.

They offer annual scholarships with two award amounts: $ 2,500 and $ 10,000 each that can definitely help lower the cost of college expenses.

Realizing that such an award would be rejected out of hand by a judge, Sparks moderated her demand, and Payton agreed to contribute $ 5,550 a month in child support, establish a $ 175,000 college trust fund and purchase a $ 1 million life insurance policy naming the child as beneficiary.

Krishna was also awarded the Silver Medal Merit Award for her project and a $ 1,000 scholarship to Mohawk College.

The Port Henry High School Alumni Association has awarded $ 500 to each of three high school seniors at Moriah Central School in support of their college educations.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo today announced that the state has awarded SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry $ 20 million to build science labs and classrooms along Onondaga Lake's Inner Harbor.

The featured speaker for Saturday's luncheon was Sergio Fernández de Córdova, an internationally recognized entrepreneur and philanthropist, and it also included an awards presentation of Unidad Latina scholarships to 20 college - bound high school seniors of $ 2,000 each.

The New York Public Interest Research Group, unions and other groups want the Legislature to raise the maximum award from $ 5,000 to $ 6,500, since public college tuition has exceeded the maximum amount in recent years.

Over the past week, he also has advocated awarding three upstate regions $ 500 million each for economic development and forgiving student loans for New York college graduates who stay to work.

Three Long Island colleges are being awarded state funds for campus capital projects — sharing in $ 35 million in construction grants to 29 private, nonprofit institutions statewide, the governor's office announced yesterday.

Ithaca College in Tompkins County recently introduced a New York State Tuition Award for New York students from families with incomes of $ 125,000 or less.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Bennington College nearly $ 90,000 for a Rapid Response grant to support a new course and conduct original research on the perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) contamination recently discovered in Hoosick Falls, NY, and North Bennington, VT..

Student - led teams from three upstate New York colleges have been awarded $ 1 million each for their proposals to harness renewable energy to power their campuses.

During the 2005 - 2006 through 2007 - 2008 academic years, the College of New Rochelle certified more than $ 35 million in Tuition Assistance Program awards.

The state also provides enhanced tuition awards for independent colleges and universities, with students receiving up to $ 6,000 including TAP.

Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has been awarded $ 1.22 million from the National Institutes of Health to help fight childhood obesity in the Bronx.

In Oswego County, Grassman Energy was awarded $ 716,500 toward its efforts to begin design and manufacturing of wind turbines of the sort that can be seen at Carousel Center and atop the State University College at Oswego.

The organization also awards $ 20,000 to graduating high school seniors attending a 4 - year college in the fall who live in the areas of Ocean Hill, Brownsville and East New York.

Last month, the joint team was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of $ 591,622 for a 2 - year research project involving 300 students, with and without disabilities, at seven institutions, including three colleges for the blind.

In the first funding cycle of the ADVANCE program, nine universities and colleges were awarded as much as $ 4 million over a period of 5 years.

The current PBF formula awards community colleges $ 185 per «student success point,» some of which include passing the first college - level math course, completing 15 semester credit hours, earning a degree or certificate, or transferring to a university.

Two years ago, he led a team that won first place in the College of Agricultural Sciences» Ag Springboard contest, an entrepreneurial business - plan competition, and was awarded $ 7,500 to help develop the concept.

Medical Center and College investigators received 556 grant awards from July 1, 2011, to June 30, 2012, with $ 65.2 million coming from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Kessler Foundation Awards $ 407K to College to Career Transition Program for Students with Disabilities in Florida

College of the Atlantic will award up to two $ 100,000 scholarships.

Three second - place winners each received cash awards of $ 75,000: Brice Huang, 17, of Princeton Junction, N.J., West Windsor - Plainsboro High School North; Kalia D. Firester, 17, of New York, N.Y., Hunter College High School; and Saranesh (Saran) Thanika Prembabu, 17, of San Ramon, Calif., Dougherty Valley High School.

Penn State College of Medicine and University of Wisconsin have been awarded a five - year, $ 2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund the study of a novel way to treat iron deficiency anemia in children.

The National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded a $ 1 million grant to Bingyu Zhao, assistant professor of horticulture in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech, to develop and deploy resistant genes and monitor the pathogen.

Penn State College of Medicine has just received a $ 3.9 million award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) of the National Institutes of Health for research to find biomarkers for Parkinson's disease.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awards MIT, University College London, and University of Kansas $ 17.6 M for development and production of low - cost vaccines.

Dr Joseph Bateman from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London has been awarded a $ 484,000 grant from the US Department of Defense for a study into Tuberous Sclerosis Complex, a rare genetic disease.

Through a pilot cooperative agreement notice or CAN the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) and the Office of Education (OE) National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program (Space Grant) awarded more than $ 8 million through the competitively selected Undergraduate Student Instrument Project (USIP) to 47 teams of undergraduate students to conduct hands - on flight research.

This comedy presents the story of a white college student who desperately wants to enroll in the Harvard Law School, but since his wealthy father refuses to help him pay the $ 54,000 he needs, so he begins taking tanning pills to darken his skin so he will be eligible to win the Bouchard Fellowship which is only awarded to African - American students.

The Young Epidemiology Scholars Competition wrapped up its first year by awarding $ 50,000 college scholarships to two high school students from a group of 60 finalists, juniors and seniors who had won regional and state competitions involving nearly 600 entries nationwide.

In 2010, the U.S. Department of Education awarded $ 330 million to the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) to develop assessments aligned to the common core in English language arts and mathematics for grades 3 through 8 and high school.

Speaking at Florida Community College in Gainesville on Jan. 14, Mr. Bush said he would propose in his fiscal 2006 budget that the maximum Pell Grant award should increase to $ 4,550 by 2010.

Michigan's $ 2,500 award covers only about half of average tuition and fees at Michigan's public four - year colleges.

The prize, which gives the winning district $ 500,000 for student scholarships for college, is being touted as urban public education's most prestigious award.

Award recipients receive $ 10,000 for a college scholarship for students in their school systems.

The five award winners — Natasha Bridge, Michael Downey, Chloe Khan, Tuan Nguyen, and Charlette Nicole Smith — will each receive $ 10,000 in college scholarships, a $ 500 shopping spree at Macy's, and a laptop computer.

RC: Recently, Houston Endowment awarded Houston [Independent School District] $ 13 million, to both further expand EMERGE over the next three years, and to hire additional college advisors to work with all district students.

The International award winner received a $ 5,000 college scholarship to present to a high school student.

The grant requests, totaling approximately $ 330 million, are part of the Race to the Top competition and will be awarded to the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) in the amounts of approximately $ 170 and $ 160 million respectively.

The federal $ 16.6 million award allowed the district to expand its STEM studies to all the schools that feed Skyline High School and to pursue creating Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P - TECH) with IBM.

The College Board has awarded 350 Hispanic high - school seniors $ 1,500 scholarships as part of a program designed to increase the number of Hispanic students going on to cCollege Board has awarded 350 Hispanic high - school seniors $ 1,500 scholarships as part of a program designed to increase the number of Hispanic students going on to collegecollege.

In part due to your generosity, College Success Arizona was able to award total scholarship funds of $ 1,750,500.

Last week, Midlands Middle College was awarded $ 5,000 in grant funding from Bank of America, for Workforce Development and Education Initiatives.